Hongxinnu is a master of Cantonese opera generation, she started to perform at the age of 14, and created her own "Red School Singing Voice" for the traditional singing voice of Cantonese Opera Hua Dan into The Beijing-Kunming and Western techniques.
Red Line Woman
On the stage, she sang for 70 years, and together with her ex-husband Ma Shi Zeng, she carried forward the Cantonese opera genre and became a famous national drama, and together with Huangmei opera Yan Fengying, Yu opera Chang Xiangyu, and Yue opera Yuan Xuefen, she was recognized as the four famous local operas of the national treasure level.
In the marriage feelings, the red line woman is not smooth, in her later years she admitted to her son Ma Dingsheng that her union with her first husband Ma Shizeng was "not voluntary", and the marriage with her second husband, the writer Hua Shan, "lacked love", and her son sighed in a qingtan program, like his mother, the feelings are difficult to complete, "men are best to stay away.".
In the memoirs of Zhao Dan's daughter Zhao Qing, "Me and Daddy Zhao Dan", a past story between the red line woman and Zhao Dan was recorded, in the 50s, when Zhao Dan's marriage was facing breakdown, he chose to associate with the divorced red line woman, and once lived together, and then forced to break up under pressure, Zhao Dan returned to Huang Zongying's side, Zhao Qing once lamented that the red line woman was more suitable than Huang Zongying as Zhao Dan's wife.
Zhao Dan
Although the four relationships in her life are vigorous, the red line woman is still lonely and half a life, a heart has nowhere to go, and can only sing on the stage full of lingering affection until the end of life.
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Ma Shi was born into a family of scholars, because of his love of music and drama, despite his parents' opposition, he secretly entered the industry, refined his skills, and became famous for his "beggar's style".
Ma Shi Zeng
In 1929, the Red Line woman was only 5 years old, Ma Shi was already a famous Cantonese opera singer in Nanyang, with an annual salary of the best in the industry, because he was repeatedly excluded in Guangzhou, he was injured by a bomb on his right foot, and was ordered by the police to suspend the performance for half a year.
Red Line woman originally named Kwong Jianlian, born in a drama family, family living in Xiguan, Guangzhou, in 1938 due to the Japanese invasion of China, lost school, to Hong Kong to visit her aunt He Fulian as a teacher, formally learned art, stage name "Xiao Yanhong", and thus met the red Hong Kong Ma Shi Zeng, often he taught the play and clicked the singing voice, learned to pull the cavity, steal gas, and later joined the Ma Shi Zeng Taiping Troupe, the night performance dressed as a yahuan, palace girl, matinee performance as some of the few supporting roles.
In 1941, she became the third Hua Dan, and after the fall of Hong Kong, she went with the troupe to perform in Guangxi, the rear of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1943, when Ma Shi performed "Diao Man Princess Huan Horse", Hua Dan Lan Yin, who played the princess, suddenly had a stomachache and could not play, so she was temporarily rescued by the red line woman, which was a great success, and since then it has become a positive printing Dan, officially taking the stage name of "red line woman".
In 1944, the red line woman married the troupe owner Ma Shizeng, Ma Shi was 24 years older than her, she has always regarded it as the elder of the master, and the lack of emotional foundation between men and women, there is a big difference in personality, therefore, the married life of the old husband and young wife is not too happy.
Ma Shi used to be with the Red Line Woman
After marriage, they had two sons and a daughter, Ma Dingchang, Ma Dingsheng and their daughter Honghong, but the Red Line Woman later admitted to her son that the marriage with Ma Shizeng was "not voluntary", and broke her helplessness in one word.
But fortunately the husband and wife have a common career, in the career has been a good partner, under the guidance of Ma Shizeng, the red line woman gradually formed the "Ma Pai Red Cavity", with Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Western drama performances into Cantonese opera, unique, famous, after the victory of the War of Resistance, she spent eight years in Hong Kong, filmed more than ninety movies, of which "Autumn", "Every Household", "Heaven and Earth" three selected as "100 Must Not Watch Hong Kong Movies".
In 1955, Ma Shi returned to Guangzhou with the red line woman, Ma Shi was the head of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe, and together with the red line woman to promote the development of Cantonese opera, he was warmly welcomed.
At this time, the red line woman and Ma Shizeng had actually gone through the divorce procedures.
Many years later, she was interviewed by Che Shumei and talked about the reasons for the divorce that year, saying that one night when filming in Hong Kong until late at night, when she crossed the sea by boat, she saw Ma Shi waiting for a boat with a woman, behaving intimately, and later investigated and learned that Ma Shi had an extramarital affair with "Xiao San" for three years, and she made up her mind to get out of this unhappy marriage.
After the divorce, Ma Shi remarried at the age of 60, married a young wife who was a few years younger than the red line woman, and at the age of 63, Ma Shi was diagnosed with tracheal cancer and died of illness at the age of 64.
It is worth mentioning that although they have been divorced and separated, Ma Shi's cooperation with the Red Line Woman on the stage has never ended, and from 1955 to 1963, the two still partnered in many new dramas such as "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", "Guan Hanqing", "Qu Yuan" and so on.
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After divorcing Ma Shi, the red line woman met the Chinese film Xiaosheng Huanghe on the Hong Kong set, the Yellow River is tall, calm, and her age is similar, so the red line woman talked to him quite speculatively, after the love came out, Hong Kong newspapers and periodicals have reported, called "red and yellow love".
But when she heard that Ma Shi had planned to return to Guangzhou for development, the Red Line Woman also decided to return to Guangzhou, the center of Cantonese opera, and carry forward Cantonese opera in New China, she categorically broke up with the Yellow River, followed Ma Shi back to Guangzhou, the Yellow River was extremely reluctant, chased to Guangzhou, and failed to persuade her to return to Hong Kong.
In the 1960s, Huang He went to Taiwan to develop in the performing arts industry, and once adapted a past incident with the Red Line Woman into a movie.
In the heart of the red line woman, the Cantonese opera career is more important than love, which is the reason why she broke up with the Yellow River, and it is also the reason why she followed Ma Shizeng all her life.
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Zhao Dan was imprisoned in Xinjiang for several years, his wife Ye Luxi misheard the news of his death and remarried, Zhao Dan was released from prison, his wife was separated, and then fell into a lonely mood, until 1947 with Huang Zongying because of the drama, Huang Zongying and her husband Cheng Shuyao at the time went through divorce procedures and remarried Zhao Dan.
Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying
But after getting married, Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying had more and more differences and frictions, especially economic issues and family life.
Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying gave birth to two children after marriage, Huang Zongying adopted Zhou Xuan's two sons, the economy is not rich, there are more children, even more impoverished, the family is crowded in a dilapidated attic, with cigarettes in a cardboard box to put clothes, and even had to accept huang Zongying's ex-husband Cheng Shuyao's sponsorship.
Zhao Dan was repeatedly hit by "The Legend of Martial Training", and when he returned home to see such a depressed life, his husband and wife's relationship was almost broken, Huang Zongying began to write because he had no drama to act, and he had a few months to go out every year, and he almost did not meet with Zhao Dan.
At this time, Zhao Dan and the divorced and single red line woman acquaintance and mutual affection, and even once came out of the news of cohabitation, Zhao Dan planned to divorce Huang Zongying, but because the child is still small, Zhao Dan's situation is also difficult to protect, under the persuasion of friends, Zhao Dan only temporarily dismissed the idea of divorce, and then Zhao Dan was arrested and imprisoned for 5 years, and soon after his comeback, he was diagnosed with cancer, and died at the age of 65, his eldest daughter, dancer Zhao Qing said in his memoirs "My father and daddy Zhao Dan": "The father did not combine with the red line woman, it has always been the father's regret." ”
Compared with Huang Zongying, the red line woman has a beautiful appearance, a lively temperament, and a traditional female side, and is also a Guangdong girl like Zhao Dan's ex-wife Ye Lucy, which may be the attraction of Zhao Dan at these points. Zhao Qing also believes that the temperament of the red line woman is more suitable for Zhao Dan.
But this love affair is destined to be a no-deal, and the red line woman remains silent about it in her later years, never mentioning this past to people.
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Red Line Woman was only 35 years old when she divorced Ma Shi, and she did not want to walk her life alone, so she did not give up her plan to find a mate for many years.
In 1961, someone told her second son, Ma Dingsheng, that the red line woman was going to remarry, and Ma Dingsheng was anxious to write a letter to his mother, saying: "Mother please don't get married, you are married, I am as miserable as my brother." ”
The son's letter moved the mother, and the remarriage of the red line woman ended without a problem.
She took the eldest son from Ma Shi Zeng's side, sent the second son to Beijing to study, and then never considered remarriage, ten years of catastrophe, the red line woman was shaved yin and yang head, hung a black card, ordered to sweep the street, lonely to bear the pressure of life.
Until 1975, the children have grown up, the red line woman over fifty years old met her long-time friend, the original author of the movie "Chicken Feather Letter", and the war correspondent Hua Shan at a cultural exchange meeting in Beijing, and the simple Hua Shan openly proposed: "Kwong Jianlian, red line woman, your two names are so beautiful, I like it, allow me to alternately call you hello?" What I want to tell you is that my children respect you and I will respect you too! ”
Mount Hua
After the two flash marriage, the red line woman called Huashan a "wife", and she hoped to grow old with Huashan Baitou, which was her independent "second spring", she longed for happiness, although there was no spark of love, but there was also the fullness and thoughtfulness of accompanying her day and night.
The two walked together, discussed the script together, but the happy time was less than ten years, in 1984, Huashan's liver disease worsened, was sent to the hospital, for a year, the red line woman delivered soup and medicine every day, ran the heavy ward, served meticulously, 340 yuan per month National first-class artist salary to buy nutrition, medicine costs spent everything, but still could not save her husband's life.
In 1985, Huashan died, the red line woman returned to the life of a person, just 60 years old, she was already full of white hair, at this time, her children have left Guangzhou, far overseas, the red line woman lives alone in Guangzhou Overseas Chinese New Village, the home has been stolen many times, once even by the gangsters to beat seriously injured, the head is full of bandages, the hands are full of scars.
In 2009, The Red Line Woman won the first "Chinese Drama Lifetime Achievement Award".
At the end of 2013, the 89-year-old red line woman passed away, behind her brilliant artistic achievements, there is also a loneliness and loneliness that is difficult to declare, the world is difficult to complete, in the theater art, there is an old saying called "not crazy devil can not live", the full dedication to the cause, so that she can not persist in the pursuit of love, the marriage careful management, four love in life, are not in the game, most of life, can only be alone trekking, taste hardships.